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According to the exo configure step it is not installed, or it is installed but cannot be found. The log file that was created by the configure step tells you more about this error then is shown on screen, you need to check that out.

The following command tells you where libxfce4util is installed (if it is):

hi druuna
see this
root [ /home/janu/Downloads/xc/src ]# pkg-config --modversion libxfce4util-1.0
result:Package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfce4util-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libxfce4util-1.0' found

PS: Why do you execute the command I gave twice? It (the find command I posted) starts looking in the root directory.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by janakiramulu

root [ /home/janu/Downloads/xc/src ]# pkg-config --modversion libxfce4util-1.0
result:Package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfce4util-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libxfce4util-1.0' found

Why are you still looking for version 1.0? I thought I explained that already in post #41.

Also: The find command I posted in post #47 already looked for files with libxfce4util in their name (and as you posted, it did not find anything).

hi druuna
i removed old version Pkg-config-0.22 source[extracted ] dir in /home/janu/Downloads/xc dir
i rebooted and i started as fresh for xfce4.8
now again i followed same order as mentioned here: http://www.xfce.org/download/building

The above clearly shows that PREFIX is _not_ set and thus the install locations are incorrect.

But that shouldn't surprise you, you already noticed this in your previous post. You really think that ignoring it will help in any way? The only thing you accomplished is messing up your system even further.....

Quote:

any suggation plz

Stop what you are doing, get familiar with linux in general and try again once you know what you are doing and feel comfortable using the command line.

Installing from source is not a copy-paste exercise, you need to be able to interpret log files and output shown to screen. You also need to read and be able to understand what's said on web pages and written in a variety of help files that come with the source.

As you yourself showed in your previous post (the libxfce4util-4.8.1 part), not getting an error during the build does not automatically mean it was installed correctly. In this case it is installed, but in the wrong location. You need to be able to pick this up and fix this yourself.

If setting a variable to a specific value is too hard for you to do, then you have a long way to go before you are ready to try to build a B/LFS sytem. BLFS and all that comes with it is a lot harder then LFS. LFS is mostly a copy-paste exercise when it comes down to it (although doing that will not teach you anything at all).